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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fonesca, the man who makes things work in Sarasota, takes on the cases of seventeen-year-old Ronnie Graeill accused of bludgeoning to death a local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding; and a semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs who is being blackmailed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Then his therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells...